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Local veteran, business leader pens war memoirs
A 17-year-old high school senior at the time, Jim Steed said he didn’t even know where Pearl Harbor was in December 1941, but he looked it up after hearing President Franklin Roosevelt deliver his famous “day of infamy” speech.“It was a very inspiring speech,” he said. “I told my parents ...
Local veteran remembers the forgotten war
Jim Lewellyn knows first-hand why they call Korea “the forgotten war,” but last week, he took a trip that made him feel remembered for his service.“When I came back, nobody did us like they did the Vietnam veterans,” he said. “No one shook our hands or told us thanks for ...
City evaluates its ‘green’ assets
Although the city has a number of environmental and sustainability assets already in place, there’s still a long way to go before achieving the “greenest little city in America” status it seeks, according to Green Umbrella, a regional environmental advocacy group.One of the first steps is to let people know ...
Hamilton’s ‘grill’ comes down, art goes up
Even though occupancy is still more than a year away, the Artspace Hamilton Lofts is already sporting its first art exhibition.While workers from Historic Preservation Inc. spent last week removing the giant aluminum facade that has covered the historic building, formally known as the Mehrum-Lindley Block, since the late 1960s, ...
‘Heaven Is For Real’ parents coming to Hamilton
Since he started organizing the National Day of Prayer Breakfast a few years ago, the Rev. John Lewis, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in downtown Hamilton, said the event has been inching closer and closer to a sell-out.“We try to make it a community event for all denominations with music ...
Group wants to keep Richter name alive
Charles Francis Richter is not the familiar name it could be, according to a group of local historians.The Butler County native was a seismologist and physicist who, in 1935, invented a way of rating the severity of earthquakes by measuring the shock waves they produced.Although his calculation formulas were supplanted ...
Hamilton woman shares story of journey from abuse
Trudy Fultz was 24 years old when she met the man she would marry.She’d lived on her own and had been in other relationships, had even broken off a few of them herself, so she doesn’t think it was because she was naive or anything like that.But when the abuse ...
Drama clubs rally around blind student
Although B.J. Kinch has been blind almost since birth and is not yet 15 years old, it’s pretty obvious that he sees better than most people. An honor roll, nearly straight-A eighth-grader at Wilson Middle School, he can build with Lego blocks, program a computer and a cell phone and ...
Letters put personal touch to flood tragedy
The commemoration of the Great Flood of 1913 took a personal turn last week as the Butler County Historical Society presented “The 1913 Flood: As seen through the eyes of Lutie and Homer Gard.”The program was created by local historian Richard Piland and Historical Society Executive Director Kathy Creighton based ...
Hamilton Community Council leader honored for work
After two careers, one in the U.S. Navy and a second in the San Diego Police Department, Butch Hubble thought it might be a good idea to come back to his hometown so he could “watch the grass grow and play golf with my buddies.”He came back home, but resting ...
Concert pianist from Hamilton to headline festival finale
Hamilton native Bryan Wallick, now a world-traveling concert pianist based in South Africa, returns to his hometown and his home church to close out the 2013 Ohio Mozart Festival with the Hamilton Fairfield Symphony Orchestra.Wallick will perform Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, now also known as “Elvira Madrigan” ...
True West Coffee plans to expand into downtown
Kofenya, the coffee shop in the Robinson-Schwenn Building, closed its doors this week, but it may not be too long of a wait before people can get a downtown coffee fix.Although the lease isn’t yet signed, Chris Cannon, owner of True West Coffee on Main Street, said he plans to ...
Artspace project takes leap forward
The $10.2 million Hamilton Artspace Lofts is one step closer to reality this week as workers begin to remove the steel and aluminum facade to reveal the historic architecture beneath. Representatives from Artspace, a Minneapolis-based developer that specializes in reconfiguring historic properties into living and working spaces for artists, first ...
Miami Conservancy created unique flood control plan
As terrible as the Great Flood of 1913 was, something remarkable came from the vow to never let it happen again.“Without federal or state money,” wrote Janet M. Bly, the Miami Conservancy District’s General Manager, in the 2013 edition of “The Deed” newsletter, “these communities built and paid for a ...
City Council discusses obstacles to achieving strategic goals
Hamilton City Council and the city’s administrative leadership team met Saturday for a day-long planning session to discuss obstacles to achieving particular elements of the city’s Strategic Plan of making Hamilton a destination for people to live, work and play.Facilitator Frank Wiley, consultant and president of Magnitude Marketing, told the ...
Little League opens season with tribute to veterans
The West Side Little League kicked off the 2013 season Saturday with opening day ceremonies that included the dedication of a wall to honor the city’s fallen soldiers.Members of the Patriot Guard lined the infield with 22 signs that contained the names of 22 fallen soldiers along with the date ...
Paper sculpture exhibit recalls Hamilton’s past
This part of Ohio was once know as “the Paper Valley” because of the large number of paper mills — as many as 23 by one count — along the Great Miami River.While those industries have since disappeared from Hamilton, “The Art of Paper,” an art exhibition at Miami Hamilton ...
Annual writers conference set for weekend
The eighth annual Mad Anthony Writers Conference will bring dozens of writers to Hamilton this weekend.The Hamilton event offers writers an opportunity to learn from several professionals in the literary and publishing community. In its eight years, the non-profit conference has also donated more than $35,000 to local literacy campaigns.Victoria ...
Flood left Hamilton a divided city
On the morning of March 25, 1913, there were three public bridges and one railroad bridge crossing the Great Miami River in Hamilton.By the following morning, there were none.Local transportation historian Dan Finfrock, a former science teacher for the Fairfield City School District and author of a book on the ...
Art show to benefit local teen moms
More than 20 local artists will be lending their talent Saturday to the second annual Charity Art Show sponsored by The Village Church.“A bunch of artists go to church there,” said organizer Jenni Hubbard. “Last year we thought it would be cool to have an art show and invite the ...
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